Ch.475″Thorough preparation is the key to victory!”
by fnovelpia
It was truly unfair.
According to the information displayed on my status window, the Leviathan Fleet was clearly marked as being within my territory. Yet despite employing fucking awesome tools like graviton radar to search everywhere, I absolutely could not find where the Leviathan Fleet was on the mini-map(?).
‘Why can’t I find them when there’s a mini-map!’
Just as I was wondering if this was what people call a “bu-ug” that I’d only heard about or that clueless people in the gallery would point out…
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<Event>
<The Leviathan Fleet’s Test!>
<Details>
<Although it’s true that you, Commander, refused passage to the Punishment Fleet through your territory.>
<From the Leviathan Fleet’s perspective, they might immediately surrender if the Punishment Fleet actually arrives.>
<Conversely, if the Leviathan Fleet’s presence were known, they believe the Punishment Fleet would naturally moonwalk away.>
<To verify your willingness to defend this territory, and to hide their existence from the Punishment Fleet, they have decided to remain in complete stealth mode.>
<This stealth is a very special capability provided to battleship-class vessels, which cannot be detected by conventional stealth detection systems.>
<Result>
<The Leviathan Fleet will be deactivated.>
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“Oh shit!!!”
“Ugh.”
They announced they were conducting a test, but then boldly declared they were removing themselves from the battlefield.
“You bastards! Why are you never around when needed?!”
“Wow, really, truly, hmm.”
But thinking about it carefully, according to the event message, if the Leviathan Fleet were present, the Punishment Fleet wouldn’t come here at all.
That would defeat the purpose of the test, so in a way, their actions made sense, which made my feelings even more complex and mysterious.
And since this fact, unlike the cause of fighting the Punishment Fleet, needed to be known by other users as well…
I decided to inform the participating users that the Leviathan Fleet might not join this battle.
Fortunately, the users had already anticipated this to some extent.
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<Central Neutral Zone Official Chat Room>
<Notice: High possibility that Leviathan Fleet will not participate in battle against Punishment Fleet>
-[What’s this notice;; So the Levi-Levis aren’t going wild?]
-[Then how do we deal with the Punishment Fleet?]
-[We don’t even have 10,000 users combined, how do we stop them;;]
-[But isn’t the Punishment Fleet only moving because the Leviathan Fleet isn’t? It just has a few Obsidian Fleet ships mixed in?]
-[Come to think of it, that’s true]
-[If the Leviathan Fleet could move, Icarus wouldn’t have needed to talk about war and drag in anti-faction users and mercenary users ㅇㅇ]
-[That’s right]
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Title: Latest News) Leviathan Fleet NOT participating in stopping the Punishment Fleet!
Author: ㅇㅇ
Content: [Chat room notice screenshot.jpg]
For real
Comments:
-[Hoeeee are we screwed?]
-˪[No no]
-[Isn’t this obvious?]
-[They’re saying the same thing in the chat room, why would the Punishment Fleet go to Icarus’s territory if the Leviathan Fleet was functional lolol]
-˪[Is that so?](Author)
-˪[Wait, I’ll write a post explaining]
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Title: Look, if the Leviathan Fleet could move, the Punishment Fleet wouldn’t come in the first place
Author: MegatonGirl
Content: [Screenshot of post claiming Obsidian Fleet is “equivalent” to Leviathan Fleet.jpg]
The Punishment Fleet is mostly composed of regular main fleet ships, plus some capital defense fleet and “some” of the Obsidian Fleet
And saying “some” of the fleet is like those potato chips that claim they were made with water that once had truffles dipped in it
[<Link to post stating that fewer than 10 Obsidian Fleet ships are included in the Punishment Fleet>]
Did you forget that out of over 1 million ships in the fleet, fewer than 10 belong to the Obsidian Fleet?
Comments:
-[Hey, that’s still more than potato chips]
-[0.0007%]
-˪[I hate that we have to consider that “a lot”!]
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Even if some people didn’t know, since users were informing each other like this…
Any confusion caused by the fact that the Leviathan Fleet wouldn’t be deploying was quickly suppressed and settled by other users.
Of course, amid all this, different kinds of confusion arose…
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Title: I live in the Icarus Kingdom, how am I supposed to deal with this without a ship?
Author: ㅇㅇ
Content: [Notice about Xenovia Punishment Fleet coming.jpg]
What should I do?
I got wiped out last time and haven’t had time to draw ships
Comments:
-[What is this kid talking about]
-[It’ll take at least 5 days for the Punishment Fleet to reach Icarus Kingdom]
-˪[So the event will be over by then?](Author)
-˪[Obviously it’s an event where you stall for time and endure, did you think users would have to stop it themselves?]
-[lolol these events always give you just enough time to make it close, so users win after panicking and stalling]
-˪[For real lol]
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When some veteran gamers said, “It’ll take time for them to arrive, and even when they do, we just need to hold out for a day!”
Some people started to emerge suggesting that if they just needed to endure, there was no need to draw ships…
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Title: What’s with people not drawing ships
Author: ㅇㅇ
Content: [Image of Superhumans with SSS rank riding only common-grade patrol ships in Icarus Kingdom.jpg]
How should I interpret this
They’re saying they won’t level up ships since they’ll just board as Superhumans for ship assaults
Comments:
-[lololololol]
-[The determination to not even be meat shields]
-[If they’ve been farming and not following the gallery, they might not know ㅇㅇ, go tell them to at least draw ships for meat shields]
-˪[I tried but they said it’s meaningless](Author)
-˪[Then try cracking their heads, they’ll listen after getting beaten up a bit]
-˪[Ah, I see](Author)
-˪[After ejecting their Superhumans into space, they finally agreed to draw ships ㄱㅅㄱㅅ](Author)
-[Author, you implemented the beatdown suggestion just 3 minutes after it was proposed?]
-˪[He’s a man of action, cheers to that]
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Such inconsiderate users were taught a lesson by sensible users nearby or…
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Title: Status of guy who said he’d provide support fire from base instead of drawing ships.jpg
Author: ㅇㅇ
Content: [Image of 2 Krakens with tentacles attached to a base.jpg]
Icarus got super pissed and said he’d destroy their base and use it to hire other users as mercenaries
Several other users and 5-6 mercenary users also showed up saying “leave some for us”
Comments:
-[lololol]
-[Why did the other users come lol]
-˪[Gotta pick up the falling crumbs too lol]
-˪[You know users are desperate for resources, right?]
-˪[I dunno?]
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They were about to be taught a lesson by me or other users, but hurriedly decided to draw ships instead.
That was truly a fortunate outcome.
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And so, while considering feeding cowards and opportunists to the man-eating crabs in Cheonggyecheon…
Other users and I encouraged each other as we drew ships, and drew more ships, and drew even more ships.
We spent time leveling up the ships we drew and the Superhumans that popped out from gacha during this period, and 5 days later.
No, exactly 4 days and 20 hours later.
About 5,500 users from my “Icarus Kingdom.”
Plus anti-faction users, and solo players from the Central Zone who came to have fun but got “conscripted.”
Finally, since we couldn’t hire “mercenary corps,” we hired mercenary users from other zones or other Central Zones instead.
As a result, at my base Tannhäuser, we were able to complete defensive preparations with fleets from over 20,000 users gathered.
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